The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On May 7, it will be exactly 100 years since the sinking of the luxury steamship Lusitania by a German submarine. A new best-selling novel is exploring the question: Did it have to ...

In May 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, resulting in the loss of more than 1,100 lives, The attack on the civilian vessel sent shockwaves around the ...

One hundred years ago, 128 Americans died among more than a thousand in the sinking of what was then the greatest ocean liner in the world. In response, the U.S. entered World War I. That's the story ...

At about 2 p.m. on May 7, 1915, Theodate Pope of Farmington, and her companion, Harvard man, Edwin Friend, were strolling along the promenade deck of the ocean liner R.M.S. Lusitania on the starboard ...

THE wreck of the Lusitania, which sank off Cork over a century ago with the loss of 1,198 lives, has been gifted to an Irish museum by its American owner. US businessman Greg Bemis signed over the ...

The legends of lost ships call to us like siren songs. We never tire of the Titanic's re-telling, and as we near the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania -- on May 7 -- there are two new ...

The Lusitania sailed regularly between Liverpool (above) and New York from 1907 to 1915 Some 1,200 people died when the ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in World War One. A centenary ...

Didier Conrad told me that "it came about because our publisher's a big fan, and as it happened, we love him too, so it came naturally, but he doesn't really have much to do with Portugal or Lusitania ...